The Right to Read Film Showing

The Right to Read shares stories of an activist, a teacher and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of life-long success: the ability to read. American reading levels, especially among African American and Latinex students, have been far below grade-level for decades. When a child doesn’t learn to read, their chances of incarceration, homelessness, and high school dropout increase. This powerful film tackles this fundamental social justice issue and seeks to answer the question: Why children are not learning to read once they get to school and what can we do to address this profound social problem? This film shows how by using proven science-based, data-driven approaches, we can solve the problem of low literacy rates together. Following the film there will be a discussion about the literacy landscape of St. Louis and a Q & A with Lisa Greening. Greening is the Executive Director of Turn the Page STL, St. Louis’ chapter of the Campaign for Grade Level Reading, which she started in 2020.The National Campaign for Grade Level Reading developed to improve third grade reading proficiency. In 2022, Turn the Page STL won the Pacesetter Community Award from the National Campaign for its collective impact work in the St. Louis community. For ten years, Greening was the executive director of Ready Readers, a St. Louis nonprofit dedicated to preparing preschool-age children from low-income communities to become readers. She has received several honors for her work in literacy including recognition by the State of Missouri for her dedication to improving the lives of Missouri children.

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